Excerpta de Codico M.S. Henratii communicata a [illegible], 27 May 1693
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [19]
Scope and Contents
Extract of a volume (only partially cited) found by David Gregory in Amsterdam. He captions this "F: a. Schoten', suggesting that the work transcribed is that of geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660). The work concerns curves and quadratures, and is laced with comparisons to the work of Jan Hudde.
Dates
- 27 May 1693
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genreform: manuscript
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genreform: manuscript
Processing Information
Kiki's number = 26
(Unsure what "communicata a ..." means, in Gregory's index title?)
(Unsure what "communicata a ..." means, in Gregory's index title?)
Processing Information
Duncan Fisher 25 May 2001
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Curves
- Curves, Rectification and Quadrature
- Geometry
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford)
- Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician)
- Mathematics
- Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (Dutch mathematician)
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